342. The Missing Piece: Why "IIFYM" Doesn't Always Work
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm bringing you episode 4 of my new 6-part series, The Missing Piece, where I'm addressing why "hitting your macros" doesn't always yield fat loss and the progress you think it will.
If you're putting in the work, logging your food, and still finding progress out of reach – this episode is for you.
In today's episode I'm revealing the massively overlooked reason your body might be holding onto weight and fat despite appearing to "hit your macros" as you log your food. I'm sharing why what you eat (not just how much you eat) matters if your goal is to lose body fat and lean out.
By the end of this episode, you'll walk away confidently knowing how to hit your nutrition goals, make your hard work count, and finally see those fat loss results you deserve.
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🎙️Episode 339. The Missing Piece: 300 Calorie Meals Lead To 10,000 Calorie Snack Attacks
🎙️Episode 341: The Missing Piece: Carbs Are Great... But You're Eating The Wrong Types
🎙️Episode 343: The Missing Piece: A 1 Hour Workout Is Great, However THIS Is Better
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Missing Peace series where we figure out exactly why your fat loss has felt stuck and what to do about it because the truth is the worst way to lose fat is by eating less. |
| 0:11.8 | How you slim down and get your dream body is by eating smart, not less ladies. |
| 0:17.4 | My new program Slim Down Eat Up is the new era of weight loss, where you eat the most amount of food to actually weight the least. |
| 0:25.9 | This program takes my proven fat loss process, the same one I've used with over 7,000 women in the past decade as a registered dietitian, and turns it into a step-by-step experience that will permanently change your body |
| 0:38.4 | and your relationship to food. Slim down, eat up, drop Sunday, November 16th. Mark your |
| 0:43.8 | calendars. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy, Never |
| 0:56.0 | Hungry. This is actually the fourth episode as part of the missing piece series, a free series |
| 1:01.0 | I'm doing on this podcast to help you figure out what is the missing piece that's holding |
| 1:04.4 | you back from your dream body and making sure your hard work is actually adding up. |
| 1:09.3 | Today's episode is exactly for the woman that I just |
| 1:13.0 | described, where you've made a lot of really positive changes. Heck, you might be tracking your |
| 1:16.6 | progress, tracking your macros and your calories. And you're like, oh my gosh, like, why is this not |
| 1:22.7 | working? And I want to tell you why it isn't working. Today's episode title is on why if it fits your macros |
| 1:30.5 | doesn't always work. And why it doesn't always work is truly because you are hitting |
| 1:37.5 | macros that you see in an app like My Fitness Pal or Chronometer or Lose It, these calorie |
| 1:43.4 | and macro tracking apps. But when you pull |
| 1:46.0 | the layers back, I alluded to this, but we're going to talk about it in a little bit of a different |
| 1:49.5 | light. Last episode on fiber, I alluded to this. But one of the reasons why you're not actually |
| 1:56.7 | shedding fat is when we look at your meals, they are all over the place. They are not balanced. |
| 2:04.5 | They are not nutritionally balanced. And what usually happens is you might see certain calories |
| 2:11.7 | and macros and you might be trying to hit them consistently every single day because you know |
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